Is the iPhone 6 just too SLIPPY?

Guinness Boy · Jun 8, 2015

I am moderately clumsy but not a complete klutz by any means. I've managed to have an iphone since the 3 came out without ever dropping it or cracking the screen. That is until I got the 6.

I have now dropped it four times. On none of those occasions have I been drunk - in fact I have had one bottle of wine in a week and a half. The third one caused a small crack in the top corner but the fourth has just cracked it all over the shop.

I know a good repairer round the corner though I expect it will cost me a few quid but I am baffled at my treating of this most expensive and technologically advanced device like wet soap. I have come to the conclusion that it is too shiny/slippy and too thin.

Am I mad or are you all dropping yours so to speak?

Robot Chicken · Jun 8, 2015

The Samsung Galaxy 6 is also very slippery.

The solution is to get a case.

SteveTheSeagull · Jun 8, 2015

Also very bendy

Guinness Boy · Jun 8, 2015

Robot Chicken said:
The solution is to get a case.

*writes that down*

JamesAndTheGiantHead · Jun 8, 2015

There isn't an iPhone user in existence that hasn't dropped their phone from at least a minimal height over the course of their ownership.

The difference is, there are those who are aware of the ever-present dangers and who prepare accordingly by buying a case, and there are absolute MASOCHISTS like yourself that just want to watch the world burn.

Vankleek Hill Seagull · Jun 8, 2015

Guinness Boy said:
I am not a complete klutz by any means.

Are you sure about that? :wink:

Guinness Boy said:
I have come to the conclusion that it is too shiny/slippy and too thin.

You hit the nail on the head here because the iPhone 6 / 6+ is too thin. It's a case of form over function. The last iPhone I had was the 4S which was chunky and was nice to hold. That's why I now have a Sony Xperia Z2 as it's a chunky, nice to grip phone. I don't feel I'm going to lose it just by holding it unlike the iPhone 6 / 6+.

Bold Seagull · Jun 8, 2015

JamesAndTheGiantHead said:
There isn't an iPhone user in existence that hasn't dropped their phone from at least a minimal height over the course of their ownership.

The difference is, there are those who are aware of the ever-present dangers and who prepare accordingly by buying a case, and there are absolute MASOCHISTS like yourself that just want to watch the world burn.

Cases are for pussies.

Hiney · Jun 8, 2015

Bold Seagull said:
Cases are for pussies.

Or alternatively, for people who can re-sell their phones for MUCH MORE than they would have got if they had not been lovingly protected by a CASE.

Triggaaar · Jun 8, 2015

Bold Seagull said:
Cases are for pussies.

Is that what the ladies tell you?

This is what I have on my 4S:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00409YVSO?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00

It's nice quality, doesn't make the phone much more bulky, and it protects the phone when I drop it.

Vegas Seagull · Jun 8, 2015

I have a 6+ and every one all the way back & never broken any, a case ruins the classic English design of the product. Only an idiot would stick some 4 by 2 round the sides of a Ferrari so why with am iPhone?

Bold Seagull · Jun 8, 2015

hiney said:
or alternatively, for people who can re-sell their phones for much more than they would have got if they had not been lovingly protected by a case.

pussies!

Guinness Boy · Jun 8, 2015

Toronto Seagull said:
Are you sure about that?

Not JAMIE levels.

You hit the nail on the head here because the iPhone 6 / 6+ is too thin. It's a case of form over function. The last iPhone I had was the 4S which was chunky and was nice to hold. That's why I now have a Sony Xperia Z2 as it's a chunky, nice to grip phone. I don't feel I'm going to lose it just by holding it unlike the iPhone 6 / 6+.

QED

Hampster Gull · Jun 8, 2015

Dropped mine at the weekend. £100 to repair

Prince Monolulu · Jun 8, 2015

If it wasn't Apple, I'd get one.

CheeseRolls · Jun 8, 2015

It really baffles me that so many mobile phone reviewers, make such a song and dance about the finish on the back of a phone. So many of them particularly hate plastic backs. However no one ever faced a large repair bill, because the back of their phone got marked or scuffed - I rest my case (rather roughly on the nearest uneven surface)

Mr Putdown · Jun 8, 2015

I've owned iPhones since they came out and IMHO the iPhone 6 is the worst for 'slipperyness'. Dropped & smashed my first one two days after launch and have done it again twice, the latter one after spunking nearly fourty quid on a genuine Apple case.

It still caused a small crack in the screen near the home button. Despite both the phone and the protective case being genuine Apple products, unsurprisingly Apple deny any liability whatsoever.

If I were to add up how much I've actually spent on every iPhone & iPad that I've bought, it's in the thousands. Yet it means absolutely nothing to them.

I guess I've got 'mug' written on my forehead in some proprietary, invisible UV Apple iInk.

Or more likely I really was a mug Apple wise.

Easy 10 · Jun 8, 2015

Love my HTC dot-matrix case. It slams shut the INSTANT its of my hand, screen is fully protected. Lots of nifty little interactive touches, games, notifications. Swipe up to answer a call, I don't even have to open the cover.

Its the FUTURE.

gregbrighton · Jun 9, 2015

BN9 BHA · Jun 10, 2015

Bold Seagull said:
Cases are for pussies.

And for clumsy cluntz.

Vegas Seagull said:
I have a 6+ and every one all the way back & never broken any, a case ruins the classic English design of the product. Only an idiot would stick some 4 by 2 round the sides of a Ferrari so why with am iPhone?

It's a phone not a fashion item. :facepalm:

Bold Seagull · Jun 10, 2015

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